It is further true that more has been written about Holmes by others than by Doyle himself." We will return to that Ellery Queen anthology, but for now the important point is that no other detective - not Miss Marple, nor Hercule Poirot, nor Ellery himself - has so tempted other authors to lift their pens in imitation and tribute. For 130 years Sherlock Holmes has been, well, ubiquitous.Įllery Queen had this to say in his (err, “their”) introduction to The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes: " more has been written about Sherlock Holmes than about any other character in fiction. (Holmes views the movie version, based on Watson's account, in an attempt to jump start his failing memories of the case.) The fact that the movie offers a new take on Holmes - indeed, two new takes, and that the same week yet another Holmes retrospective hit the bookstores - Zach Dumas' The Amazing Rise and Immortal Lives of Sherlock Holmes - is hardly surprising. The movie, based on the 2005 Holmes pastiche A Slight Trick of the Mind by Mitch Cullin, actually offers the viewer two takes on Holmes, since the cinema version of the story features a “movie within a movie” in which Nicholas Rowe, who earlier portrayed the detective in Young Sherlock Holmes, once again assumes the role in Watson’s version of the mystery that confounds the elderly Holmes. Holmes, which features Sir Ian McKellen’s highly anticipated take on Sherlock Holmes at 93 - battling age and dementia as he tries to unravel one last case. This week’s summer movie roll-outs included Mr. Reviewing The Amazing Rise and Immortal Lives of Sherlock Holmes by Zach Dundas What’s left? As Professor Moriarty once remarked, “All that I have to say has already crossed your mind.” And, needless to say, the digital landscape is ablaze with blogs, fanfic, Twitter feeds, podcasts and innumerable tributes to the cheekbones of Benedict Cumberbatch. One can also pick up Sherlock-themed tarot decks, rubber duckies, crew socks and - for undercover work - a “sexy detective” outfit featuring a deerstalker and pipe. Recent books and graphic novels find the detective trading bon mots with Henry James, escaping the island of Doctor Moreau and squaring off against a zombie horde. Is there anything left to say about Sherlock Holmes? The fame of Arthur Conan Doyle’s iconic detective has now stretched across three centuries, with no expiration date in sight. The copyright on the 46 stories and the 4 novels, all being works published before 1923, expired. will not expire until 95 years after the date of original publication - between 20. As a result of statutory extensions of copyright protection culminating in the 1988 Copyright Term Extension Act, the American copyrights on those final stories. The final stories were published between 19. There were 56 stories in all, plus 4 novels. Arthur Conan Doyle published his first Sherlock Holmes story in 1887 and his last in 1927.
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